I was tagged by Sebastien, the author of Chron­i­cally Sick But Still Think­ing I Think (best draw­ings in the blo­gos­phere, but he hates rab­bits for some rea­sons…), on this meme.

Here it goes :

1) I was a tomboy when I was a kid and I have a lot of scars on my leg to prove it. I remem­ber rid­ing my bike really fast down­hill by my grand-parents’ place and always crash­ing in the last bent. Five years in a row. Never learned.

2) I’m French. And I don’t drink wine, beer or liquor in gen­eral. Trust me, I really tried to get drunk when I was a teen, but I just can’t bring myself to drink things that don’t taste good. How­ever, I can have a Smirnoff once in a while, because it just tastes sweet.

3) I hate being the first one to sleep. I don’t really know why… In my teens, I took up stay­ing up later than my fam­ily, just read­ing, surf­ing the web or lis­ten­ing to music, and now I’m used to it. Even if I have to work the next day, I rarely sleep before mid­night and always at the same time as Feng or later.

4) My Chi­nese teacher nick­named me “B?o zh?lì” (???) in my first Chi­nese class in Junior High because it sounded like my real last name + first name. Since my name is Juli­ette, it was then short­ened into “Zhu” (pro­nounces as in Juli­ette in Eng­lish), and it just stuck.

5) Peo­ple who have never met me before (i.e net friends or future employ­ers) tend to think I’m Chi­nese, because of my nick­name (“Zhu”) and the fact I speak Chi­nese and worked there. When I meet them, I can always hear the Sein­field line in my head : “but you’re not Chi­nese ?!”.

6) I’ve been to and trav­eled in 27 coun­tries : Canada, the USA, Mex­ico, Belize, Guatemala, Sal­vador, Hon­duras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Equa­tor, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argen­tine, Brazil, France, Bel­gium, the UK, Spain, Italy, Greece, Tunisia, China, Hong Kong, Aus­tralia and New-Zealand. Many more to come, hopefully !

7) I stud­ied Chi­nese (both lan­guage and civ­i­liza­tion) for 5 years at Uni­ver­sity and my pet theme was “Peas­ants and Com­mu­nist in Rev­o­lu­tion­ary China”. Yeah, I know. Please, don’t say anything.

I dis­cov­ered the Inter­net when I was in Bei­jing, in 1999, thanks to an engi­neer stu­dent. I had never heard of it before — embar­rass­ing ! How­ever, I caught up pretty fast and by the time I got back to France, I was look­ing for Inter­net café every­where in the city !

I’ll tag any­body who wants to do this meme… come on peo­ple, it’s fun !!

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